[PEN-L:8854] Re: Re: Response to Rod Hay

1999-07-05 Thread Rob Schaap
Gratuitous sermon alert! My years on these lists have repeatedly driven home the point that one generally has in mind, as finger taps key, taking part in something very like a public conversation. We forget that so much of the meaning we generate in such episodes has to do with our often

[PEN-L:8878] Re: Re: racism

1999-07-05 Thread Sam Pawlett
Rod Hay wrote: Okey Chigbo is not right wing. He is a left wing activist in Toronto--an immigrant from Nigeria who is turned off by the "black" activists in Toronto. And althought he cites the things you say he does, his primary concern is the damage done by separationist Afro-centric

[PEN-L:8879] Re: racism

1999-07-05 Thread Tom Walker
Sam Pawlett wrote, The Next City is an extreme right wing publication. The Next City is not an "extreme right wing" publication. Editorially it is right-libertarian but it obviously tries to appeal to the middle-of-the-road. They've published stuff by me. regards, Tom Walker

[PEN-L:8883] Re: Re: Marx and 19th century racism

1999-07-05 Thread Carrol Cox
Re the Rape of Nanking and other Great Atrocities of History. It is incorrect to make any attribute an attribute of everything. That which explains everything explains nothing. There have been huge crimes directed by members of the same "family" against each other, crimes which by no stretch of

[PEN-L:8884] Pharmaceutical companies dump useless drugs in Albania

1999-07-05 Thread Frank Durgin
WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : The Balkans Pharmaceutical companies dump useless drugs in Albania By Debra Watson 3 July 1999 Use this version to

[PEN-L:8886] Re: Re: Marx and 19th century racism

1999-07-05 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
Ricardo Duchesne wrote: True. Yet Chinese ethnocentrism is strictly cultural. The Chinese empires were not imperialistic is the Western sense of taking riches from the periphery to the core, it was always the reverse. I guess this is the official line on Chinese imperial history.

[PEN-L:8888] Re: Re: So why the hike then?

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Pollak
Very funny. My OED agrees about the etymology. (It travelled to english through the old Italian sovran.) But my Latin-English Dictionary translates "anus" as "ring" including "signet-ring" i.e., sign of rule. So superanus would be the ring, or power, that stands above all others. (Of course,

[PEN-L:8889] Re: Re: racism

1999-07-05 Thread Ken Hanly
So Tom Walker is "middle of the road" ? I wondered where to place him :) Cheers, Ken Hanly Tom Walker wrote: Sam Pawlett wrote, The Next City is an extreme right wing publication. The Next City is not an "extreme right wing" publication. Editorially it is right-libertarian but it

[PEN-L:8891] [Fwd: REUTERS: Colombia rebel chief warns against U.S. invasion]

1999-07-05 Thread Sam Pawlett
[NOTE: The "United States" is lying through its rotting teeth! Not only are there swarms of "advisers" in Colombia, but special units of the U.S. military have been operating there at least for the past year. Mind you, I am not even counting the number

[PEN-L:8887] Shadow of the Swastika

1999-07-05 Thread Craven, Jim
For an interesting essay, perhaps check out "Shadow of the Swastika: Documented Evidence of a Secret Business and Political Alliance Between the U.S. 'Establishment' and the Nazis---Before, During and After World War II--up to the Present." An Open Letter to all Americans by R. William Davis at

[PEN-L:8885] Fw: Eye witness account of the impact of war and sanctions

1999-07-05 Thread Frank Durgin
From World Socialist Web Site Eye witness account of the impact of war and sanctions on Iraq "It really is a New World Order imposed by Britain and the US" A two-part interview with journalist Felicity

[PEN-L:8882] FW: WHITE CLAY: Indians arrested in protest

1999-07-05 Thread Craven, Jim
-Original Message- From: Ish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WHITE CLAY: Indians arrested in protest Thanks to Mike for the link..:) Indians arrested in protest

[PEN-L:8881] Re: Marx and 19th century racism

1999-07-05 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
True. Yet Chinese ethnocentrism is strictly cultural. The Chinese empires were not imperialistic is the Western sense of taking riches from the periphery to the core, it was always the reverse. I guess this is the official line on Chinese imperial history. The Rape of Nanking may be

[PEN-L:8880] Film: *Rabbit in the Moon*

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Hoover
below film is scheduled for PBS program Point of View (POV) on July 6 (tomorrow night) at 10:00pm in US...local affiliates may run POV on different days and at different times during week scheduled so listers should check their local listings...*Rabbit in the Moon* shared the Best